2 alleged members of Kerwin Espinosa’s drug gang nabbed in Bohol

Two suspected members of a drug syndicate allegedly headed by Kerwin Espinosa were arrested by National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) agents in Tagbilaran, Bohol on Tuesday afternoon.

Rennan Augustus Oliva, head of the NBI in Bohol, identified the suspects as Victor  Aguilar, 36 and Marlowe Dano, 25, residents of Balilihan, Bohol.

Oliva said the duo sold drugs to their poseur-buyer near a bus terminal in Tagbilaran City at around 5 p.m.

He said the suspects tried to escape on a motorcycle after sensing that they were being entrapped by the NBI.

Recovered from the suspects were packs of shabu with an estimated street value of P300,000.

Also seized from the suspects were two .45 pistols and ammunition.

Oliva said the two suspects are members of Espinosa's drug syndicate.

They are reporting to a "supervisor" who has a direct contact to Espinosa.

"They have a supervisor who has a direct contact to Kerwin. These two were only running errands for the supervisor. They are a group. This is a very big group," Oliva said in the local Visayan dialect.

The bureau official said the group usually make transactions via phone and payments are made through money transfers.

Espinosa was arrested by the police in Abu Dhabi.

Authorities are already working for the extradition of the suspected drug lord.

Whistleblower Sandra Cam claimed on Tuesday that Espinosa is expected to reveal 12 names of public officials allegedly involved in illegal drugs.

She said the three-man police team that went to Abu Dhabi to coordinate the arrest, led by Senior Superintendent Albert Ferro, was able to get the names when they interrogated Espinosa. —report from Leo Udtohan/ALG, GMA News